lilsquiggle

lenjennings wrote:Yeah, you shouldn't have to do your own halftones anyway. That's the job of a production artist and most designers have no clue on how to do this. It's actually pretty complex to do manually which is why there's software that does it for you now and it isn't Photoshop. But you would have to design the art to go on a white or black background, or both if the design was going on both light and dark shirts. Just my .02 cents.

Fair enough Thanks for the thoughts. Ill just keep doodling at each derby and hopefully with practice Ill put together something that works and get the knack of making this half tone stuff look good ^_^

tarmawolf

Good lord. This is why woot needs to limit submissions to ONE per artist per derby. It's bad enough seeing the same crappy design memes by the same artists who can't seem to step away from cats and n.n faces, but to see multiple entries is just aggravating.

escapecar

writermist

Flashkill wrote:My guess with the way things have been going lately is that votes won't matter anymore and the staff will just pick their favorites and that is how winners will be selected.

That would never happen because it's impossible to figure out what people would want to buy... so those who actually buy shirts should give the votes. (Heck, I don't even get why some of the top votes are even at the top)

It's a good system to let the sonsumers vote....unless you ask your friends for votes. That's just wrong. -_-'

writermist

I find it interesting how many well done shirts don't even following the currant Derby.

This derby is no exception. The theme is the best things about the internet yet i see plenty of shirts that mention viruses and other things that suck about the internet. Also... some shirts aren't done in a historical art style but instead represent an old painting.
I've learned that this site allows users to stray off topic a bit. Should this be allowed in future derbies or do you guys think the theme should be absolute?

lilsquiggle

sunaness wrote:It just occurred to me that Nyan Cat is a copyrighted character... I wonder how they'll handle this.

This isn't the first time Nyan Cat has turned up in a derby Nyan's Dream

Generally speaking, when it comes to copyrighted characters and trademarks etc, things seem to be ok if the art style/drawing is different enough from the original that its not just copy pasted etc. Of course, I am a bit of a newbie to the deeper side of the derbies, so Im sure an "old timer" can explain/word this better than I can

EDIT: Has the derby submissions/votes page died for anyone else? Im just getting a server error whenever I try to go and have a nose at more submissions.

cherylfrancis

I find this derby to be particularly aggravating. as an artist myself, I very much respect the entries that have followed the clearly stated theme. These crap renditions of famous paintings should be disqualified. Not. On. Theme.

lilsquiggle

cherylfrancis wrote:I find this derby to be particularly aggravating. as an artist myself, I very much respect the entries that have followed the clearly stated theme. These crap renditions of famous paintings should be disqualified. Not. On. Theme.

Yeah I think a lot of wooters are waiting to see the rejectonator return and put some of these designs to rest. However, I suspect a lot of the famous painting renditions, even whilst not quite on theme, will probably managed to slide past rejection.

cherylfrancis

lilsquiggle wrote:Yeah I think a lot of wooters are waiting to see the rejectonator return and put some of these designs to rest. However, I suspect a lot of the famous painting renditions, even whilst not quite on theme, will probably managed to slide past rejection.

It's an easy way out. Would love to see a derby requesting versions of famous paintings, but this isn't it.

lilsquiggle

cherylfrancis wrote:It's an easy way out. Would love to see a derby requesting versions of famous paintings, but this isn't it.

Indeed. In all fairness, my first sketch up was exactly that, and then someone pointed out the exact wording of the derby theme and I head-desked and never bothered to submit that one XD It is easy to wander off topic with an idea and then never go back to the derby description to check if its actually on topic.

I do think it would be nice to see the rejectonator drawing harder lines around the derby topics and not letting people slide off track. If nothing else it would encourage people to check after doing a mock up that they definitely are on topic.

birdblue

j5

lilsquiggle wrote:Yeah I think a lot of wooters are waiting to see the rejectonator return and put some of these designs to rest. However, I suspect a lot of the famous painting renditions, even whilst not quite on theme, will probably managed to slide past rejection.

To be fair, if the rendition of the famous painting also mimics the famous painting style, then it should get a pass. If it's just a comic of a famous painting, then *bzzzt* DQ.

Maybe the change up to the derby will be "We give up, no more themes, draw whatever you want, you do anyway"

no1

tgentry wrote:Not sure if it's clear here, but this little experiment will kick in Derby #262. We just wanted to whet your appetite for something different and get you guessing!

three simultaneous contests: the regular shirt derby we have now, an auxiliary derby with community-generated themes, and a community contest to generate the theme. the auxiliary derby uses the winning community theme from the previous week, and prints on monday. the community theme contest uses up/down voting.

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